You Are The Access Point

I want to convince you of something.

You must transform the way your community

engages with information.

It’s about two things: access and context.

1. Access.

56% wirelessLaptops, cell phones, MP3 players, game consoles

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx

19% mobile phone

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data/Whos-Online.aspx

37% do not have broadband in the home

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/10-Home-Broadband-Adoption-2009.aspx

You must provide additional access.

Source: http://broadband.gov/

Source: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/applications/search.cfm/

2. Context.

Source: http://www.datamasher.org/

Source: http://www.thisweknow.org/l/MI/Detroit

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Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Trend-Data/Whos-Online.aspx

56% wirelessLaptops, cell phones, MP3 players, game consoles

Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx

You must provide context.

Participate by sharing your data.

Engage in the conversations relevant

to your community.

Thank you!

Please! Contact me:

Marnie Webb- mwebb@techsoupglobal.org- Work: http://www.techsoupglobal.org - Twitter: @webb- Skype: extension337- Blog: http://ext337.org- Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/ext337

Resources

• Pew Internet and American Life Project provides a mother lode of research, data and trend analysis

• A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 regularly updated by Jeremiah Owyang

• Broadband.govcreating a National Broadband plan

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• Heroes by videoplaceboisnothttp://www.flickr.com/photos/videoplacebo/2476230102/

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